Dive into the archives.
- #2580
Editor to Reporter: “Don’t take my recorder to the bathroom!”
- #2579
Sports Reporter on phone with angry caller: “Ma’am, not many eighth-graders have mustaches. It wasn’t meant to be racist.”
- #2578
Scanner Dispatch: “Woman called asking for someone to come by her house and check it out, says she has a bad feeling something is going to happen.” Scanner Police Reply: “I know how she feels.”
- #2577
Frustrated front page designer after being told of another story change: “I’m going to have chocolate now… because I can’t have my flask.”
- #2576
Copy Editor: “I get paid to rim dead people.”
- #2575
Reporter: “I think the paper is officially stifling my journalism today. They’re not letting me write about the live nativity scene.”
- #2574
Editor to Reporters on upcoming required overtime: “If the world is going to hell, we will be in the middle of hell covering it.”
- #2573
Copy Editor to Reporter: “What do you mean by ‘waste-water bio-solids?’ Do you mean shit?”
- #2572
One Copy Editor to another in a highly stressed newsroom: “Wonder what happened to that Christmas party the Editor-in-Chief promised?” Other Copy Editor: “I’m more worried about the extra staff he promised.”
- #2571
Reporter #1, noticing Reporter #2 is wearing a necktie: “Are you going to a funeral?” Reporter #2: “Every day.”
- #2570
Reporter: “$150 for a cat? And a used cat at that!”
- #2569
Producer to Assignment Editor talking about latest Photographer to fill revolving door position: “Don’t name him, you’ll just get attached.”
- #2568
Editor to Reporter: “The 1980s called, they want your story lengths back.”
- #2567
Editor: “This would be a great job if I didn’t have to read anything.”
- #2566
Reporter on typo in her story: “That’s a spell check mistake, not a reporter mistake.”
- #2565
Anchor to Christmas Eve Producer: “How’s your show looking?” Producer: “Kind of like Santa: Loaded with packages.”
- #2564
Meteorologist: “Well it looks like we’re just going to have to sleep here tonight. The roads are just way to dangerous.” Anchor to Producer: “I’ll cuddle up next to you, I guess. It’s not like I’m going to feel or experience anything new.”
- #2563
Scanner: “The smell and smoke were coming from some burnt tamales!”
- #2562
Reporter to Photographer while driving during winter storm: “Until you’ve almost died with a Photographer you’ve not really bonded.”
- #2561
“What we need is an official newsroom sledge hammer. So if anything stops working we can just smash it and then they’ll have to replace it.”
